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State Tax Revenue. • 43rd among the states in state tax revenue per capita14. • 46th in state tax revenue as a perce
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The State of the State of Florida March 2011 Poverty • 33rd in percentage of residents in poverty (18 states have higher poverty rates)1 • Floridians below poverty level: 2.7 million people, including 850,000 children. The number of Floridians living in poverty increased 550,000 in two years2

Residents Without Health Insurance • 4th-worst in the nation in the percentage of uninsured3 • 3rd-worst in the percentage of children under 18 without health insurance4

Well-Being of Children • 35th in the nation, 2010 Kids Count5

Child Health System • 47th in the nation, Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard on Child Health System Performance, 20116

Unemployment Rate • 3rd-highest in the nation, 11.5%7

Unemployment Compensation • 49th among the states in the percentage of unemployed who receive benefits8 • 46th among the states in the maximum weekly benefit ($275)9

Foreclosures and Delinquent Mortgages • Highest in nation, total of delinquent mortgages and mortgages in foreclosure, 23.4%10

Per Capita Income Growth • 46th in the nation, 2.2% growth between 2009 and 201011

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Food Stamp Clients • 3,092,459, February 2011, up 530,000 since February 201012

Medicaid Clients • 2,553,766, February 2011, up 240,000 since February 2010

Teacher Salaries • 37th in 2009-10, 47th (estimated) in 2010-1113

State Tax Revenue • 43rd among the states in state tax revenue per capita14 • 46th in state tax revenue as a percentage of personal income • State taxes in Florida constitute a lower share of Floridians’ personal income than at any time in the last 40 years15 • Hundreds of exemptions, exclusions, credits, and deductions to Florida’s sales and corporate income taxes go unreviewed year after year. • The state has forgone billions of dollars in potential revenue in the last decade through the elimination of the intangibles tax paid almost entirely by the wealthy, and continues to lose hundreds of millions in intangibles tax revenue year after year.16

State Tax System • 2nd most regressive in the nation17

Number of State Employees • 2nd-lowest in the nation in the number of state employees per 10,000 population18 • Lowest in the nation in state government employee payroll per resident19

Education Expenditures • 50th in per capita state government expenditures for all education20 • 50th in state government expenditures for all education per $1,000 of personal income21 • 47th in per capita state and local government expenditures for all education22 • 47th in state and local government expenditures for all education per $1,000 of personal income23

Higher Education Expenditures • 46th-worst in the change in higher education appropriations per full-time equivalent student, 2005-201024 • 41st in state and local government funding for higher education25 • 40th in state and local government funding for higher education per $1,000 of personal income26 www.fcfep.org

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Endnotes 1

“Poverty 2008 and 2009,” American Community Survey Briefs, U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/acsbr09-1.pdf 2 “The Poor and Near-Poor in Florida Increase; Income of Those at the Top Rises,” Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy, October 2010 http://www.fcfep.org/attachments/20101011--Poor%20and%20NearPoor%20Increase 3 Ibid. 4 Ibid. 5 “2010 Kids Count Data Book ,” The Annie E. Casey Foundation http://datacenter.kidscount.org/DataBook/2010/OnlineBooks/2010DataBook.pdf 6 http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Fund%20Report/2011/Feb/Child%20Health%20 Scorecard/1468_How_securing_a_healthy_future_state_scorecard_child_hlt_sys_performance_2011_web_final_v 8.pdf 7 “Unemployment Rates for States,” Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm 8 “Unemployment Compensation in Florida,” National Employment Law Project and Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy, Florida International University http://www.risep-fiu.org/wpcontent/uploads/2011/03/UI_IssueBrief.pdf 9 Ibid. 10 “LPS Mortgage Monitor, February 2011 Mortgage Performance Observations,” Lender Processing Services http://www.lpsvcs.com/NewsRoom/IndustryData/Documents/2011%2001%20January%20Mortgage%20Monitor/LPS_Mortgage_Monitor_January_2011.pdf 11 State Personal Income 2010, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/spi/2011/pdf/spi0311.pdf 12 Access Florida, Public Assistance Caseload Reports, Florida Department of Children and Families http://www.dcf.state.fl.us/programs/access/standarddatareports.shtml 13 “Rankings & Estimates, Rankings of the States 2010 and Estimates of School Statistics 2011,” National Education Association Research, December 2010 http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/HE/NEA_Rankings_and_Estimates010711.pdf 14 “2009 State Tax Revenue,” Federation of Tax Administrators http://www.taxadmin.org/Fta/rate/09taxbur.html 15 “The Facts About Florida Taxes: Already Among the Lowest in the Nation,” Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy http://www.fcfep.org/attachments/20110203--The%20Facts%20About%20Florida%20Taxes.pdf 16 Ibid. 17 “Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems of All 50 States,” Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy, November 2009 http://www.itepnet.org/whopays3.pdf 18 “Annual Workforce Report, 2009-10," Florida Department of Management Services http://www.dms.myflorida.com/human_resource_support/human_resource_management/for_state_hr_practitio ners/reports 19 Ibid. 20 “Rankings & Estimates, Rankings of the States 2010 and Estimates of School Statistics 2011,” National Education Association Research, December 2010 http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/HE/NEA_Rankings_and_Estimates010711.pdf 21 Ibid. 22 Ibid. 23 Ibid.

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“State Higher Education Finance FY 2010,” State Higher Education Executive Officers http://www.sheeo.org/finance/shef_fy10.pdf 25 Ibid. 26 Ibid.

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